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mation and irritability is reduced, and the 

 blood is lb attenuated or diverted of its vifci- 

 dit}^ by the conftant and invariable repetitioa' 

 of the ?2itrey that the circulation may be more 

 freely promoted through the finer veflels of 

 the lungs ^ as from the obflrudions in thofe 

 finer paffages all the difficulties proceed. 

 Bleeding having been performed with the ne- 

 ceffary circumfpedion as to quantity, let your 

 two ounces oi nitre be given without the mod 

 trifling remiffion, every night and morning In 

 the water, as particularized in the firfl flage 

 of the diforder, continuing one of the follow- 

 ing balls every morning for a fortnight or 

 three weeks, that a fair and decifive trial may 

 be obtained. / 



THE DETERGENT PECTORAL BALL. 



Take of Caftile foap, anifeed, and liquorice 



powders, each five ounces ; 

 Barbadoes tar fix ounces ; 

 Gum ammoniacum three ounces ; 

 Balfam of Tolu one ounce ; 

 Honey (if required) to make a mafs ^ which' 



divide into a dozen balls. 



If the complaint fhould continue predomi- 

 nant in all itsfymptoms, notwithflanding thefe 



efforts 



